On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 11:03:34AM +1000, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > Somebody sent me a query asking for a justification for my proposal to > supply a firewall/router using OpenBSD when there was thsi device: > http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=327 , with all its claimed bells and > whistles. > > Anybody know what, if anything, it does that an OBSD solution doesn't/ > cannot, that may be important? I just spent the last 3 days at work fighting a horrific Checkpoint bug that got put into a release firmware and pushed out without my knowledge dispite mutlitiple bug reports. The simple fact of the matter is with free software you are in control and things like that just don't happen. > > Or alternatively the reverse. > > I've started with SSL VPNs (OpenVPN based) which I have found to be > very easy for clients to add to road-warrior machines. I'll be doing a > bit more research on it too but hopefully somebody has some knowledge > of the beast. > > Thanks, > Rod/ > > From the land "down under": Australia. > Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? > > Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. > Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server. >
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